第二十八节 形容词加名词
这种结构与汉语思维模式是一致的,容易理解和使用。
1. name-brand merchandise that's being sold at fire-sale prices.
跳楼价名牌商品。(name adj 有名的;出名的)
2. deep water harbour. 深水港。
3. Meanwhile, Burberry began to do away with lower-end products such as stadium
hats and scarves that retailed for less than $50.
同时,巴宝莉开始摆脱像零售价低于 50 美元的运动帽和运动围巾这样的低端产品。
4. the shorter-wave length blue and violet colours. 波长更短的蓝色和紫色。
5. Voters in Zambia turned out early Thursday to choose their next president with
memories still fresh of the sudden death from a stroke last August of the late-
president Levy Mwanawasa.
赞比亚选民在周四上午选举他们的下一任总统,人们对去年八月因中风突然死亡
的已故总统姆瓦纳瓦萨仍记忆犹新。
6. black-face ewes. 黑脸母羊。
7. The latest concessions mark a significant retreat from the president's hard-line
policy.
最近的让步清楚地表明总统强硬路线的收缩。
8. easy-pour containers. 易倒式容器。
9. Give me a last-minute assignment. 交给我一项紧急任务。
10. a last-minute appeal. 最后的恳求/呼吁/上诉。
11. latecomers. 迟到者;新来者。
12. The meal solution idea first emerged in the U.S. as a low-cost way for
supermarkets to survive price competition during a time of slow growth.
方便食品的经营理念最早出现在美国的经济缓慢增长时期,作为超市降低消耗,
以便在价格竞争中取胜的一种方法。
13. free-coffee lottery. 免费咖啡券。
14. internal-combustion engine. 内燃机。
15. stained-glass windows. 彩色玻璃窗。
16. Then engineer Jim Crocker, taking a shower in a German hotel, noticed the
European-style showerhead mounted on adjustable rods.
后来工程师吉姆.克罗克在德国一家宾馆洗澡时,注意到那个安装在可调节杆上的
欧式淋浴器喷头。
17. In May, he took out a full-pAGe ad in a local newspaper urging Emmi AG, the
country's largest dairy company, to stop using the Swiss cross on yogurt made and
sold in the U.S.
五月, 他在一份当地报纸上登全版广告,敦促国内最大的奶制品企业埃米公司
停止在美国生产并销售的酸奶包装上使用瑞士十字标志。
18. Trybol gets about half its annual revenue from making personal-care products for
other companies, which then sell them as Swiss brands.
楚柏公司的年营业额中有一半来自于为其他公司制造个人护理产品——这些公司
再将这些产品以瑞士的旗号销售出去。
19. By early 1945, Qian was in the PentAGon with a high-grade security clearance and
writing reports on the latest classified technology nationwide and its implications for
future military development.
到 1945 年初,钱学森成为五角大楼一名得到高级涉密许可的人员,同时撰写关于
高度机密的全国最新技术及其对未来军事发展的重要意义的报告。
20. Believed to have first been grown in the Indus Valley of current-day Pakistan and
India, cotton is a favorite fibre in terms of its innate softness, breathability, and
AGronomic abundance.
人们认为棉花首先被种植于今天的巴基斯坦和印度河流域,就其天然的柔软性、
透气性以
及丰产性来说,使它成为最受欢迎的一种纤维。
21. Like nearly all the world’s nuclear waste, it is still waiting for the long-term
disposal solution that has eluded scientists and governments in the six decades since
the atomic era began.
像全世界几乎所有的核废料一样,它们还在等待长期处理办法,而从 60 年前原子能
时代开始以来,多国政府和科学家就一直没有找到这种办法。
22. deep-ocean fish. 深海鱼。
23. free-flow spending. 自由流动式的消费
24. distant-water fishing nations like Japan, China, and Korea.
日本、中国、韩国等远洋捕鱼国家。
25. the old-growth forest. 古老的森林。
26. low-emission vehicles. 低排放车辆。
27. high-risk populations. 高危人群。
28. high order personal P-functioning. 高级人格功能
29. A third group received languAGe training in the classroom and served as a no-
contact control group.
第三组作为无接触控制组,在教室接受语言培训。
30. no-go zone. 禁区
31. no fly zone. 禁飞区
32. Should she have got such a small size salad cream? Should she go and change it
for a larger size?
她是就吃这一小份色拉冰激凌呢?还是去换一份大的呢?
33. an open-top car. 敞口车
词 汇 积 累
1. gut n 肠道;直觉;消化道;勇气
a. a great-gutted guy. 大肚子的家伙。
b. Your gut feelings are probably wrong. 你的本能感受是错的。
c. gut wrenching. 令人痛苦的;揪心的。
2. graduation n 毕业;毕业典礼
There also have been increases in college graduations.
大学毕业生也在不断增加。
3. gain n 增加;利润;收获
We get material gains. 获得物质收获。
4. greeter n. (在酒店、超市等门口迎接顾客的)接待员
greeter of Walmart. 沃尔玛礼仪人员。
5. gestalt n 完形;完全形态
Gestalt psychologist. 完型心理学家。